Car-truck.



J. GQBARBBR.

CAR TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 12, 1013.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

2 BHEETB-SHEET 1.

J. o. BARBER.

GAR TRUCK.

APPLICATION IILED APE-.12, 1913;

2 SHEBTBSHEET 2.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

IIIII/II/II/IIIIIIIIIIIIIII/IIII/III Ill body bolster and the truck side frames. As Twill be noted byreference to the drawings of JOHN C. BARBER, 0F CHIIUAGG, It;

PANY, OF GHI'CA'IEO, libido intense.

Specification of letters letent.

Patented Sept. 2'3, 1913;.

Application flied April 12, 1313. Serial Ho. 780,611.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Jenn C. Banana, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cool: and State 01' Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Trucks; and .l. do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of. the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved car truck especially adapt ed for railway service, and to such ends, generally stated, it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

Particularly, this invention is designed as an improvement on the construction disclosed and claimed in my prior Patent No. 977,429, of date, December 6, 1910, entitled Car truck. In the said prior patent, the side frames of the truck were tied together by a heavy transom which also performed the function of a truck bolster, and the body bolster of a car was pivotally connected to the-said transom with freedom for vertical movements and for encwise movements transversely of the truck My present invention involves the above stated. features of construction. In both instances, the body bolster wassupported on combined radial and lateral motion devices. Such construction is broadly claimed in my said prior patent, but as a feature of improvement over the form of the device specifically illustrated in the drawings of the said prior patcut, I interpose these combined radial. and lateral motion devices vertically between the the said prior patent, the combined. radial and lateral motion roller bearing devices are there located inward of. the truck side frames and are interposed directly between the transom and body bolster.

In the accompanying drawings which indicate the present invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a View in side elevation with some parts sectioned and some parts broken away, showing a car truck embodying my invention;

2 is a plan view showing the transe-r Spring; seats or cross tie of the truck frame and certain devices applied tllCl'BtO; and Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken approxi n'iately on the line as w on Fig. 1, some parts being broken away, and some parts 30 being shown in full.

A portion of the car body is indicated b the numeral 1 and one of its body bolsters (which, as shown, is built up of plates and angles and is of a trussed form), is indicarted as an entirety by the numeral 2. At its central portion, this body bolster is providcd with a rigidly secured depending hub 8, and at its ends, it has box-like recesses that receive the truch springs 4'. Preferably, the truck springs i are arnnged in groups of four and at their lower ends are seated on combined roller caps and spring seats 5. 'i-hese members 5 are providedwith vertical grooved side extensions (3 that engage and slide upon vertical guide ribs or bars 7, rigidly secured to the inner surface of the sides oi. the ends of said body bolster 2. The above noted combined roller caps and spring seats 5 constitute elements of 30 lateral motion roller bearing devices hereinafter to be described.

The truck side. frames 8 are preferably of the cast steel drop girder type. Their up per ends rest on journal lJOX-GS 9 diagrammutically indicated in Fig. 1, and are bolted to the said journal boxes and the tie straps 10 secured to lugs 11 on the side frames 8. The truck wheels 12 are diagrammatically indicated in Fig. i. The dropped intermediate portions of the side frames 8 are provided with raised and laterally extended webs to which the ends of a heavy tran- SOH'HMC-L'OSS tic l tot I-beam form are rigidly secured by rivets applied both on the inner sides and the outer sides of the vertical webs of the said side'framcs. This transom 14 performs the functions of a cross tie and of a truck bolster.

Rigidly secured, or otherwise seated in the ends of a horizontal web of the I-beam transom 14, directly over the horizontally extended web 13 of the truck side frames 8, are roller bases 15, Seated on the roller bases 15 are bearing rollers 16, and seated on the said rollers 16 are intermediate roller bearing plates 17. Bearing rollers 1.8 are in terposed between the bearing plates 17 and the overlying combined roller caps and The rollers lfi have their axes extended longitudinally of the transom ll, while the rollers 18 extend approxi mately at right angles to the said rollers 16. The said elements 15, 16 and 17 afford the radial motion devices of the truck, and the said elements 17, 18 and 5 constitute elements of the lateral motion devices of the truck. The said elements 15, l6, 1?, l8 and 5 con stitute combined radial and lateral motion roller bearing de ices that are vertically interposed between the body bolster of scar and the truck side frames, in such manner that the Weight of the load is transmitted from the car body to. the truck on vertical lines which intersect the Webs of the'truck side frames, and hence, produce direct down Ward strains thereon, Without subjecting the same to torsional strains and Without subjecting the transoms or cross ties ot the truck to bending strains. @therwise stated, the load is not transmitted from the car body to the intermediate portion of a truck bolster or transom, and from thence, to the side frames, hat is directly transmitted to the truck side frames. (it course, in the construction illustrated, the ends of the transom 14; are subjected to compression, but the said transom.

does not carry the load in any ordinary sense of the Word and is not sub ected to a bending strain by the load. The said tr,

som, however, performs important functions and must be strong, so that it will rigidlytie together the two side frames of the track. inasmuch as in all railway cars, the trucks are pulled or pushed by a draft attachment secured on the car body, the truck must he propelled at the pivotal center, and hence, it

provide a sliding pivotal connection between the body holster 2 and the transom 14. This sliding pivotal connection may take difierent forms, hut preferably, the hub 3 ot' the said body bolster is seated tor pivotal and for vertical -movements in a pivot casting 19, of box-like form, which is arranged for limited sliding movements on the central This pivotal casting 19 preferably engages with wearing plates 20 on the front and rear sides of the transom 1e, and its extreme traveling move ment is limited by stops 21 rigidly secured on the said'wearing plates. To limit the up Ward movements of the body bolster 2 and to prevent the elements of the'combined radial and lateralimotion roller bearing devices from jumping from position, I provide the halo 3 at the body bolster Q'With a de pending pivot bolt 22 that Works through a short longitudinal slot 23 in the Web. of thetransom 14, and is provided just below said Web with a stop vva'sher'Q and With a cooperating stop pin 25.

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. on the transom-l t inward tramesit will, of course, he understood and is obvious from the drawings, that the roller bearing plates or members 15, 17 and 5 are provided with roller engaging seats that are concave in cross section, that is, incline or deviate reversely in respect to a horizon- I tal, so that they tend to maintain the car truck in a transverse intermediate position and parallel to the car body. When the springs 4 yield under weight of the load, the huh 3 moves vertically in the surrounding bearing oii the center hearing casting of bracket 19.

- What I claim is: r

1. The combination with truck side frames and a transom rigidly connecting the same, or a body bolster, truck springs seated in the ends of said body bolster vertically over said side frames, and combined radial and lateral motion roller bearing devices vertically interposed between said springs and said side frames.

2. The combination with truck side frames idly secured to and seated directly on top of .the intermediate portions of said side frames,

of a body bolster intermediately pivoted to saidt-ransom for limited sliding movements longitudinally thereof, truck springs seated in said hodyibolster directly over said side frames, and combined radialand lateral motion hearing devices seated on the ends of said transoms and vertically interposed bet veen said springs and-side frames.

3., The combination with truck side frames out the cast drop girder type, the same having at their intermediate portions raised and laterally expanded hearing webs, of an angle iron transom seated on and rigidly secured to the raised ebs or" said side frames, a body bolster intermediately pivoted to said transoms for limited sliding movements longitudinally' thereof, truck springs seated in the ends oisaid body holster directly over the expanded webs of saidsi'de frames, and comhined radial'and lateral motion roller bearing devices seated on the ends of said transoms and vertically interposed between said springs and the expanded webs of said side frames, i

t. The combination withtrnck side frames,

and a transom rigidly connect-ing'the same,

or? pivot hracket mounted for limited slidring movements on the central portion of saidvices and truck springs vertically interposed between the ends of said body holster and the intermediate portionxa of said truck side frames.

5. The combination with tIUCliSlt'lt] trainee, and a transom rigidly connecting the smile, of a pivot bracket mounted for limited sliding movements on the central portion of said transoms, a body bolster having a hub pivoted in said sliding pivot bracket and eapable of vertical movements therein, combined radial and lateral motion bearing devices and truck springs vertically interposed between the ends of said body holster and the intern'iediate portions of said truck aide frames, and a connection reventin dental separation of the said 1)l\'0t hnb from the said pivot bracket.

6. The combination with truck side tra mew, of an angle iron transom rigidly connecting,

the Sdlllt, said transom having: a longitudinal slot at'the central portion of its web, of a pivot bracket. mounted 'l' u' limited sliding nn'n'ements on the centr=f po tion of said transom, a body holster hat-mg a pivot hub seated in said sliding pivot bra tet for pivotal and vertical movements, :1 coupling bolt applied to said hub and depending through the central slot of said transom, a sto 7 device applied to the end of said coupling oltbelow the web ot said transom, and combined radial and lateral motion hearing devices and springs interposed between said body holster and side t'raniese.

in testimony whereof l ailix my signature 35 

